ipad cases

Certainly some of the biggest tech news this year has been the official unveiling of the iPad by Apple yesterday. The device looks pretty darn cool to me, though some complain the iPad didn’t live up to the hype. As you can imagine with any new product coming from Apple, the accessories are coming in force as well.

While we spent twenty minutes grabbing hands-on video with the Apple iPad yesterday, something we didn’t get to play with were the official iPad accessories. Over at iLounge they’ve had better luck, giving some first impressions and pricing details for the Apple iPad Keyboard Dock, Apple iPad Case, Apple iPad Dock Connector to VGA Adapter and Apple iPad Camera Connector Kit.

Running as it does the iPhone OS, the iPad joins the list of Apple devices that won't play Flash content. While they're not ready to announce Flash for the platform, Adobe have confirmed that their upcoming Packager for iPhone - which will be part of Flash Pro CS5 - will indeed support the iPad along with the iPhone and iPod touch.

Apple's iPad is official, but you can't get your hands on one for another couple of months (three if you want integrated 3G). The next best thing, then, is lashings of video, and happily we have just that for you. Apple have put their official keynote video online, and after the cut we've got almost twenty minutes of our own hands-on footage.

Apple have never been impressed with netbooks - they've consistently criticized the budget ultraportables and maintained that they have no interest in producing one - but with the Apple iPad Steve Jobs basically declared war on netbooks. After opening with a snub - "netbooks aren't better at anything - they're just cheap laptops" - Jobs went on to rub salt in the wound with the launch of a 3G data plan that's half what netbook buyers are currently expected to pay.

Apple didn't just announced the iPad - they also brought along some official accessories to use with it. Two docking stands, a pair of adapters and a case will go on sale alongside the iPad, and of the four the most interesting is probably the keyboard dock. That holds the tablet in portrait orientation, and provides a full-sized Apple keyboard on which to type.

What can we say: it feels even thinner in the metal than it looks in the photos. We've just had a hands-on play with the Apple iPad and it's mighty impressive. Speed and screen quality aren't in short supply, with the tablet - that, thanks to all that metal and glass, has a reasonable heft to it - whipping through the customized iPhone OS.

Apple have unveiled the iPad, their long-awaited and much-rumored tablet. A half-inch thick slate, the iPad has a 9.7-inch LCD IPS 1024 x 768 display with multitouch, , WiFi 802.11n and - optionally - integrated 3G, the iPad is based on a new 1GHz Apple A4 of the company's own design. Onboard storage ranges from 16GB to 64GB, and the whole thing runs the iPhone OS with a new, custom UI. Best of all, pricing will start at $499 when the Apple iPad begins shipping in around 60 days time, with $130 on top for adding integrated 3G. More details after the cut.

It's January 27th 2010 and SlashGear is outside the Yerba Buena Center - looking pretty darn resplendent in its paint-spattered decor - waiting to bring you all the news from Apple's latest media event. Biggest expectation today is a new iPad tablet; we've supposedly seen shots of the display and shots of the casing, now all we need is Steve Jobs to take to the stage and make it official.

There's a little over an hour until Apple's Steve Jobs takes to the stage to - we're presuming - announce the new Apple tablet, but to tide you over how about some purported leaked images of the slate's casing. Briefly showing up on a Chinese messageboard, and then promptly deleted, these shots show an indecently thin chassis together with several cut-outs and notches presumably for charging, buttons and headphones.